The interface of semantics & etymology, morpho-syntax, and pragmatics in Chinese
Edited by Jeeyoung Peck
Special issue of Language and Linguistics 20:2 (2019) x, 151 pp.
Jeeyoung Peck
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jeeyoung Peck plays a role.
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Subjects Altaic languages | Austro-Asian languages | Austronesian languages | Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2019 Semantic constraint on preposition incorporation of postverbal locative PPs in Mandarin Chinese Sound, Form, and Meaning of Chinese Dialects, Eom, Ik-sang (ed.), pp. 85–130 | Article
Other than subcategorized argument locative PPs (e.g. 放在桌子上 fàng zài zhuōzi-shàng ‘put on the table’), the postverbal position in Modern Mandarin Chinese can only be filled by limited types of adjunct locative prepositional phrases (e.g. 跳在桌子上 tiào zài zhuōzi-shàng ‘jump onto the table’). Among… read more
2011 The syntax–semantics interface of multi-morpheme motion constructions in Chinese: An analysis based on hierarchical scalar structure Studies in Language 35:2, pp. 337–379 | Article
This study analyzes semantic constraints affecting the order of motion morphemes in Mandarin Chinese multi-morpheme motion constructions (MMMCs, e.g. zǒu-jìn fángjiān ‘walk into the room’ (lit.) ‘walk-enter room’ vs. *jìn-zǒu (lit.) ‘enter-walk’). We classify Chinese motion morphemes into four… read more